How to create an "Element" entry for making a screenshot of the desktop (entire window what the user is seeing)

[_KK_]

Hello Forum!

We created a PopUpWatch for OS exceptions like "… has stopped working".
In the callback we call the method "HandleAndCloseWatchedDialog" we want to execute when the event (the exception) occurs.

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myPopupWatcher.Watch(new RxPath("/form[@title='Basereport']/?/?/element[@instance='0']/button[@text='Close the program']"), HandleAndCloseWatchedDialog);

A helper class on our Project has a method with name TakeScreenshotOfElement(Element element, string errorText, string category).
It shall create a screenshot for further investigations.

How to "create" the "entire Desktop" as "Element" (what the user is seening when the method is called), adding it in the repo and having Access to without compile errors?

Thanks for your help.

Best regards

_KK_

[Vega]

Give this a try and let me know if this is what you are looking for:

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Report.Screenshot(ReportLevel.Info, "User", "", "/", false);

within the parameters you will see "/" which is the target. "/" is the RanoreXPath I am using and that essentially returns everything. Tested and captured my whole desktop with multiple monitors.

Hope this helps

[_KK_]

Hi Vega!

Thanks for your Reply.

I guess your Approach doesnt fit the Need that this must be in "flavor" as "Element element".
Maybe you have read that the provided method "TakeScreenshotOfElement" taking a screenshot.
It has a first Parameter which must be satisfied as "Element".

I found myself a solution after I have included in the repo some entries and call now the following Code in the method which is called from the PopUpWatch when it finds the pattern:

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TestFailureHelpers.TakeScreenshotOfElement(Ranorex_Automation_HelpersRepository.Instance.Basereport_PopUpWatch_Exception.Fensterdialog_BasereportHasStoppedWorking.Element, "ssome useful Information to the user what happened", "warn");
			

Maybe the use of a PopUpWatch "creates" more issues during test than to acknowledge the undesired popup.
I found here in the Forum an answer that testexcecution and PopUpWatch is not "synchronized".
Testexecution is continued and Maybe the close-command by the watcher hits not the correct target.

Best regards

_KK_